William Faulkner (1897–1962)
Autor de El sonido y la furia
Sobre El Autor
Born in an old Mississippi family, William Faulkner made his home in Oxford, seat of the University of Mississippi. After the fifth grade he went to school only off and on-lived, read, and wrote much as he pleased. In 1918, refusing to enlist with the "Yankees," he joined the Canadian Air Force, mostrar más and was transferred to the British Royal Air Force. After the war he studied a little at the University, did house painting, worked as a night superintendent at a power plant, went to New Orleans and became a friend of Sherwood Anderson, then to Europe and back home to Oxford. By this time he had written two novels. The Sound and the Fury followed in 1929. Financial success came with Sanctuary in 1931, which he assisted in filming. Faulkner 's novels are intense in their character portrayals of disintegrating Southern aristocrats, poor whites, and African Americans. A complex stream-of-consciousness rhetoric often involves Faulkner in lengthy sentences of anguished power. Most of his tales are set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and are characterized by the use of many recurring characters from families of different social levels spanning more than a century. His best subjects are the old, dying South and the newer materialistic South. As I Lay Dying (1930), is a grotesquely tragicomic story about a family of poor southern whites. With Absalom, Absalom! (1936); the difficult parts of his famous short novel "The Bear" (published in Go Down, Moses, 1942); and the allegorical A Fable (1954), a non-Yoknapatawpha novel set in France during World War I; Faulkner returned to an innovative and difficult style that most readers have trouble with. Yet, interspersed among such works are collections of easily read stories originally published in popular magazines. There seems to be a growing sentiment among critics that the Snopes trilogy-The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959)-for the most part an example of Faulkner's "moderate" style, could well be among his most important works. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature "for his powerful and artistically independent contribution to the new American novel," but it would appear now that he also deserved to win that honor for his contribution to world literature. When reporting his death, the Boston Globe quoted Faulkner's having once told an interviewer: "Since man is mortal, the only immortality for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. That is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must some day pass." In addition to the Nobel Prize, Faulkner received the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1950, and in 1951 he was given the National Book Award for his Collected Stories Collected Stories. For his novel A Fable he received the National Book Award for the second time, as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 1955. The Reivers (1962) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. In 1957 and 1958, he was the University of Virginia's first writer-in-residence, and in January 1959 he accepted an appointment as consultant on contemporary literature to the Alderman Library of that university. Although Faulkner was not without honors in his lifetime and has received world recognition since then, it is surprising to learn that, when Malcolm Cowley edited The Portable Faulkner in 1946, he found that almost all of Faulkner's books were out of print. By arranging selections from the works to form a continuous chronicle, Cowley deserves much of the credit for making readers aware of the way in which Faulkner was creating a fictive world on a scale grander than that of any novelist since Balzac. William Faulkner died in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.
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(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
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Series
Obras de William Faulkner
Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (1990) 588 copias
Novels 1942-1954 : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable (1994) — Autor — 467 copias
Novels 1926-1929 : Soldiers' Pay / Mosquitoes / Flags in the Dust / The Sound and the Fury (2006) 397 copias
Faulkner in the university : class conferences at the University of Virginia, 1957-1958 (1959) 79 copias
Works of William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury / Sanctuary / Light in August / As I Lay Dying (1956) 52 copias
William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375): Knight's Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works (Library of… (1940) 36 copias
Ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's Ghost Stories for Children (1980) — Contribuidor — 31 copias
Dry September 23 copias
A Fable: William Faulkner Manuscripts 20, Volume I: Miscellaneous Manuscript & Typescript Pages, Part 1 (1987) 12 copias
Czerwone liście : opowiadania 11 copias
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text 8 copias
Obras escogidas: Mientras agonizo / Pylon / Los invictos / El Villorío / Desciende,Moises! (1962) 8 copias
Yoknapatawpha vanaaeg. jutustused / 1 {Yoknapatawpha Olden Time: Tales} — Autor — 8 copias
William Faulkner Novels: 1936-1940 8 copias
Lo! 8 copias
Yoknapatawpha uusaeg. jutustused / 2 {Yoknapatawpha Modern Times: Tales} — Autor — 6 copias
Red Leaves {story} — Autor — 5 copias
Shimgles for the Lord 5 copias
Obras Escogidas, Premio Nobel 1949 5 copias
The Saint Magazine Reader 4 copias
A Justice 4 copias
Hell Creek Crossing 4 copias
The Modern Library 4 copias
Best-in-Books: Grand Hotel / Voice of Bugle Ann / Life with Father / Mutiny on the Bounty / Postman Always Rings Twice (1962) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Kirjailijan työ : Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Kurt Vonnegut (1985) 3 copias
Septembertørke og andre noveller 3 copias
William Faulkner Manuscripts 22, Volumes I and II: The Mansion: The Early Typescript, Parts 1 and 2 3 copias
William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old Man (1992) 3 copias
Father Abraham Tree: William Faulkner Manuscripts II: Holograph Manuscript and Typescripts; and, The Wishing Tree:… (1987) 3 copias
世界文学全集 : カラー版. 第50巻 (フォークナー). 3 copias
The Broach 3 copias
That Will Be Fine 3 copias
Honor 3 copias
Stary 3 copias
A Bear Hunt 3 copias
Mule in the Yard 3 copias
Elly 3 copias
Centaur in Brass 3 copias
A Courtship 3 copias
Hajnali hajtóvadászat : elbeszélések 2 copias
Tomorrow 2 copias
Faulkner William (William Falkner) 2 copias
Correspondance Malcolm Cowley-William Faulkner.Lettres et souvenirs de 1944 à 1962 commentés par M.Cowley traduit de… (1970) 2 copias
Shall Not Perish 2 copias
The Hill 2 copias
Salmagundi 2 copias
Light in August / The Mansion 2 copias
I negri e gli indiani 2 copias
Works of William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury / Sanctuary / Light in August / As I Lay Dying (1929) 2 copias
Death Drag 2 copias
The Sound and the Fury 2 copias
I fantasmi di Rowan Oak. Storie di sogno e di paura scritte e raccontate da William Faulkner (2005) 2 copias
Crevasse 2 copias
Mistral 2 copias
Faulkner 2 copias
The Leg 2 copias
Beyond 2 copias
Fox Hunt 2 copias
Victory 2 copias
Carcassonne — Autor — 2 copias
The Tall Men 2 copias
Golden Land 2 copias
There Was a Queen 2 copias
Artist at Home 2 copias
Divorce in Naples 2 copias
Amerikaanse verhalen — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Dok le ah na samrti 1 copia
ha-Ḳol ṿeha-zaʻam 1 copia
My Grandmother Millard 1 copia
Requiem pour une nonne ("Requiem for a nun"), traduit de l'américain par M. E. Coindreau. Préface… 1 copia
Rare William Faulkner Absalom Absalom! Franklin Library Limited Leather 1978 [Hardcover] unknown 1 copia
New Orlean Sketches 1 copia
Monk [short story] 1 copia
Obras Completas III 1 copia
Megszületik augusztusban regény 1 copia
Svetloba v avgustu 1 copia
Smásögur 1 copia
Η Βουή Και Η Αντάρα 1 copia
Φως στον Αύγουστο 1 copia
Light in August pb 1 copia
the Man and the Artist (pb) 1 copia
The Mansion: Typescript Setting Copy & Miscellaneous Material (William Faulkner Manuscripts 22, Volumes III & IV) (1991) 1 copia
By William Faulkner The Sound And the Fury (Pmc) (Modern Classics) (New impression) [Paperback] 1 copia
LIGHT IN AUGUST Easton Press 1 copia
The Reivers...a Reminiscence 1 copia
William FAULKNER / The Town 1957 1 copia
Az öreg [kisregény] 1 copia
Absalom, Absalom! / Intruder in the Dust / Light in August / The Reivers / The Sound and the Fury 1 copia
Hand Upon the Waters 1 copia
Собрание рассказов 1 copia
Dosegimde Olurken - Ayi 1 copia
Lekeli Gunler 1 copia
O Aksam Gunesi 1 copia
The Waifs 1 copia
Семь рассказов 1 copia
TYMI 1 copia
Svetiliste 1 copia
La Pallida Zilphia Gant 1 copia
ΟΙ ΚΛΕΦΤΕΣ 1 copia
DUMAN 1 copia
Folklore of the Air 1 copia
A Point of Law 1 copia
With Caution and Dispatch 1 copia
An Error in Chemistry 1 copia
Ci wielcy ludzie : opowiadania 1 copia
Três Histórias de Guerra 1 copia
Humphrey Bogart Classics: Volume 2 — Writer — 1 copia
Sartoris / The Bear / Intruder in the Dust — Autor — 1 copia
Copacul Dorintelor 1 copia
A William Faulkner Reader 1 copia
Obras Completas II 1 copia
Obras Completas III 1 copia
Αβεσσαλώμ Αβεσσαλώμ 1 copia
Obras escogidas I 1 copia
The Evening Sun 1 copia
Santuario - Luce d' Agosto 1 copia
Neodpočívej v pokoji 1 copia
Collected Storeies Vol. II 1 copia
The Story of My Life 1 copia
The Hound 1 copia
Selected Short Works of William Faulkner — Autor — 1 copia
Novelas escogidas, I (Mientras agonizo; Pylon, Los invictos; El villorrio; ¿Desciende, Moisés?) 1 copia
Extrait - L'Intrus 1 copia
Pylon: William Faulkner Manuscripts 12: Typescript Setting Copy and Miscellaneous Holograph Pages (1987) 1 copia
Opere 1 copia
Elmer; and, "A Portrait of Elmer": William Faulker Manuscripts I: The Typescripts, Manuscripts, and Miscellaneous Pages (1987) 1 copia
Faulkner's University Pieces 1 copia
Aşk ve Ölüm 1 copia
Kırmızı Yapraklar 1 copia
Absalom, Absalom! Griff in den Staub. Der Bär. Die Spitzbuben. Eine Legende. Sartoris. Dürrer September. Als… (1963) 1 copia
Larmen Og Vreden 1 copia
A Cosmos of My Own 1 copia
The Road to Glory 1 copia
Country Lawyer 1 copia
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow 1 copia
Rose of Lebanon 1 copia
Pennsylvania Station 1 copia
The Faulkner Reader: The Sound and Fury Complete, selections from other novels, 3 novellas, nine stories, etc (1954) 1 copia
Faulkner - Premio Nobel 1949 1 copia
Duman 1 copia
Rare -SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER First ed! Deluxe Leather! & Companion Guide (1976) 1 copia
නිරා ලය 1 copia
“The Tall Men” 1 copia
Smasogur 1 copia
Khi tôi nằm chết 1 copia
Konjicki gambit 1 copia
Collected Stories Volume I 1 copia
Obras escogidas TOMO II: Una fabula-El ruido y la furia-Santuario-Absalom,absalom-novelas cortas (1960) 1 copia
Obras Completas VI 1 copia
DIVLJE PALME - STARAC 1 copia
"A Bear Hunt" 1 copia
"Shall Not Perish" 1 copia
"Hair" 1 copia
Snobovi 1 copia
Descends, Moise 1 copia
Une Ballade Des Dames Perdues 1 copia
William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volumes I, II, and III: Requiem for a Nun: Preliminary Holograph and Typescript… (1987) 1 copia
O Homem e o Rio Livro 1 1 copia
کتاب صوتی گور به گور 1 copia
البعوض 1 copia
Zstąp, Mojżeszu 1 copia
2003 1 copia
Requiem for a Nun: William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volume III: Typescript Setting Copy (1987) 1 copia
This earth : a poem 1 copia
TRE RÖVARE 1 copia
Pobertové : reminiscence 1 copia
Byn roman 1 copia
Erzählungen II 1 copia
Zascianek 1 copia
Fumo 1 copia
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The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (2001) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
Ángeles sin brillo = The Tarnished angels / dirigida por Robert Sirk (1957) — Original book — 16 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1932) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: A Photographic Study of Faulkner's County (2009) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
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De mooiste verhalen van James Baldwin, John Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski,… (1990) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
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The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1937) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 3 — Contribuidor — 6 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1936) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
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Story in America, 1933-1934: Thirty-Four Selections from the American Issues of "Story," the Magazine Devoted Solely to… (1934) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1935 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1935) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Desperate Hours • The Goat Boy • My Brother's Keeper • Two Soldiers • The… (1956) 2 copias
Modern Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Los premios Nobel de literatura. En la ciudad / Elias Portolu / El Maestro — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Nobel Prize Library Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1957 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Faulkner, William
- Nombre legal
- Faulkner, William Cuthbert
- Otros nombres
- Faulkner, Will
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1897-09-25
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1962-07-06
- Lugar de sepultura
- St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New Albany, Mississippi, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Byhalia, Mississippi, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse, which led to thrombosis
- Lugares de residencia
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Educación
- University of Mississippi
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer
poet
literary critic
essayist
screenwriter (mostrar todos 14)
playwright
bank clerk
postmaster
roof painter
carpenter
deckhand
coal shoveler
pilot - Relaciones
- Faulkner, John (brother)
Falkner, Murry C. (brother)
Faulkner, Jim (nephew)
Falkner, William Clark (great-grandfather)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Anderson, Sherwood (friend) (mostrar todos 9)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Franklin, Malcolm A. (stepson)
Wells, Dean Faulkner (niece) - Organizaciones
- British Armed Forces
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
University of Mississippi (postmaster)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (screenwriter)
Warner Brothers (screenwriter) (mostrar todos 8)
University of Virginia (writer-in-residence)
National Institute of Arts and Letters - Premios y honores
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1949)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1948)
William Dean Howells Medal (1950)
Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur (1951)
Silver Medal of the Greek Academy (1957) (mostrar todos 8)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1962)
Created the PEN/Faulkner Award - Biografía breve
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919 and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) appears on similar lists. - Aviso de desambiguación
- This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.
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Folio Society Devotees: Sound and Fury en Book talk (octubre 2023)
Folio Society Devotees: Sound and Fury en Folio Society Devotees (octubre 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume III, The Mansion en Club Read 2023 (septiembre 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume II, The Town en Club Read 2023 (agosto 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy Group Read: The Hamlet en Club Read 2023 (julio 2023)
The Sound and the Fury LE en Folio Society Devotees (mayo 2021)
Faulkner and james Branch Cabell en William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (octubre 2020)
As I Lay Dying: The More You Know. en William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (noviembre 2018)
William Faulkner- American Author Challenge en 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (marzo 2014)
LIGHT IN AUGUST - Group Read Discussion Thread en 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (agosto 2013)
The Sound and the Fury GROUP READ en 2013 Category Challenge (abril 2013)
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